砍 kǎn

1. kǎn verb to chop; to cut off
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '砍'; Guoyu '砍' v 1; Unihan '砍')
2. kǎn verb to throw
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Northern dialect (Guoyu '砍' v 2)

Contained in

• 砍刀 machete
• 砍杀(砍殺) to attack and kill
• 砍死 to hack to death; to kill with an ax
• 砍头不过风吹帽(砍頭不過風吹帽) to regard decapitation as no more important than the wind blowing off your hat
• 砍树(砍樹) to chop wood; to chop down trees
• 砍断(砍斷) to chop off
• 滥砍滥伐(濫砍濫伐) wanton destruction of forested lands
• 砍伐 to hew; to cut down
• 磨刀不误砍柴工(磨刀不誤砍柴工) sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer; time invested in preparations is not lost
• 砍伤(砍傷) to wound with a blade or hatchet; to slash; to gash
• 砍头(砍頭) to decapitate; to behead
• 砍价(砍價) to bargain; to cut or beat down a price
• 砍大山 to chat; to chew the fat
• 砍柴 to chop firewood

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 第七十五回 Chapter 75 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 15
• 第七十三回 Chapter 73 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 11
• 第五十三回 Chapter 53 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 9
• 第五十回 Chapter 50 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 9
• 第四十回 Chapter 40 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 8
• 第四十六回 Chapter 46 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 8
• 第七十八回 Chapter 78 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 7
• 第六十一回 Chapter 61 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 6
• 第九十三回 Chapter 93 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
• 第九十五回 Chapter 95 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6

Collocations

• 砍翻 (砍翻) 和那交椅都砍翻了 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第三十一回 Chapter 31 — count: 25
• 斧砍 (斧砍) 黑大漢兩斧砍開 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第四十回 Chapter 40 — count: 7
• 砍做 (砍做) 砍做兩截便罷 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第四十一回 Chapter 41 — count: 7
• 砍去 (砍去) 一朴刀砍去 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第七十回 Chapter 70 — count: 7
• 便砍 (便砍) 劈手奪過一把斧來便砍 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第四十三回 Chapter 43 — count: 6
• 刀砍 (刀砍) 競拔佩刀砍其左股 — History of Ming 明史, 卷二百九十七 列傳第一百八十五 孝義二 Volume 297 Biographies 185: Filial Acts 2 — count: 6
• 一刀砍 (一刀砍) 把人一刀砍了 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第十二回 Chapter 12 — count: 6
• 砍来 (砍來) 便看著扈成砍來 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第五十回 Chapter 50 — count: 6
• 砍下马 (砍下馬) 砍下馬來 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第六十七回 Chapter 67 — count: 5
• 见砍 (見砍) 王矮虎見砍了這婦人 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第三十五回 Chapter 35 — count: 4